Nelson Channel
Nelson Channel | ||
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The Nelson Channel between Candlemas Island (right) and Vindication Island (left) | ||
Connects waters | South Atlantic | |
with water | South Atlantic | |
Separates land mass | Candlemas Island | |
of land mass | Vindication Island | |
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Geographical location | 57 ° 5 '59 " S , 26 ° 46' 4" W | |
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The Nelson Channel is a navigable strait in the South Sandwich Islands archipelago . It runs between Candlemas Island in the east and Vindication Island in the west.
The British navigator James Cook , discoverer of the South Sandwich Islands, mapped the strait in 1775. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations carried out further mapping in 1930 and named it Nelson Strait . It is named after Lieutenant Andrew Laidlaw Nelson (1904-1958), first officer and navigator of Discovery II for this mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee adapted this name in 1955 to avoid confusion with Nelson Strait in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands.
Web links
- Nelson Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nelson Channel on geographic.org (English)